SIP
NAT, idle timers, and split tunnels
ITSP trunks, your SBC, gateways, bandwidth, NAT, and the ports that belong only to Studio.
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NAT and PAT are acceptable. Double NAT is not. UDP bindings that idle out cause one-way audio. The requirements use a 30 second UDP idle timeout as the planning number, and they tell you to send keepalives when the binding is shorter.
- Reject double NAT
- Keep Five9 inside the VPN
On a VPN, translate RFC 1918 space to a public address the far side can route. Do not exclude Five9 domains from a split tunnel and then wonder why signaling dies. Do not restrict SIP or RTP between sites.
Each hop has to pass media, not just the invite.
Trace one-way audio
List NAT count, UDP timer, and whether Five9 is inside the tunnel.
- NAT layers
- Idle timer
- Split-tunnel check
You did not start with the dialer mode.
- Double NAT? No.
- UDP idle? 30 seconds.
- Shorter timer? Keepalives.
- Split tunnel? Do not exclude Five9.
- Technical requirements PDF. vendor. last checked 2026-10. Fetched for this lab in October 2026. Re-read before you buy hardware or open a firewall.
- RFC 1918. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
- RFC 3261. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
- RFC 3550, RTP. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
- RFC 3551, RTP profile for audio and video. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
- ITU-T G.711. standard. last checked 2026-10.
- RFC 768, User Datagram Protocol. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
- RFC 4787, NAT behavior for UDP. rfc. last checked 2026-10.
Glossary. CTI Web Services API: One name on the APIs page. Not a screen-pop field list. APIs and SDKs
Sister technologies. Dynamics 365, Zendesk, Oracle, NetSuite, Epic. Each is a named Plus adapter. This lab does not copy a package number for them. Technical requirements PDF
Config. List NAT count, UDP timer, and whether Five9 is inside the tunnel.
Troubleshooting. The firewall drops UDP before 30 seconds and nothing keepalive is sent. Fix the binding.
Cross-platform bridge. A mapping to another PBX or contact center is a teaching bridge. It is not an import button.
Future hook. The guide's cloud endpoint stays unset. Confirm before relying on a dated catalog or a case-study number.